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    Book Review: David Tan, Jeanne C Fromer, and Dev S Gangjee, Fashion and Intellectual Property (CUP, 2025)

    First view: [Mar 2026 Online] Sing JLS 1-5
    In the past two decades, the field of “fashion law” has emerged at the intersection of intellectual property (“IP”) and a multi-billion-dollar global industry driven by creativity and constantly changing trends. Yet the relationship between fashion and IP has remained, in many respects, under-theorised and evolving. Fashion and Intellectual Property, edited by David Tan, Jeanne Fromer and Dev Gangjee, is an impressive and timely collection that brings together leading IP scholars from around the world to explore this complex theme. The book offers a fascinating range of theoretical, doctrinal and policy insights into how various IP laws interact with the fashion industry, exploring the role that fashion plays in society, how fashion exposes the tensions in patent, design, trademark and copyright doctrines, and to what extent IP laws accommodate phenomena like upcycling and cultural appropriation. The result is a rich, scholarly examination of fashion through an IP lens, one that should interest not only IP experts but anyone curious about how law engages with creativity and culture.
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